Part of the final project for Ethics is to lead the class in a 75 minute discussion on an ethical topic of your choice. I'm allowed to assign up to 50 pages of reading and no more. My topic is Ethics and the Academic Commons, and I have to assume that the rest of the class is unfamiliar with the relevant issues. The goal of the discussion is to establish a working knowledge of the subject and then apply an ethical structure to it. Here's what I've come up with for reading:

• "Building Blocks: 'Commons' and 'Layers'" from Lessig's The Future of Ideas
• "The Gift Community" from Hyde's The Gift*
• "Enclosing the Academic Commons" from Bollier's Silent Theft
• "What Utilitarianism Is" from Mill's Utilitarianism.

This is approximately 50 pages, and I think it provides as much information as possible within that space. We'll see.

*Thanks, Tutor!